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Post by kern on Mar 29, 2005 10:51:30 GMT -1
I like the idea of an altar in the West. Do you work with ancestral spirits in ritual? The ancestral links of blood and bone are very important to me. Well you could call it working with ancestral spirits,I might say a blessing or ask them to attend or for protection and make an offering of beer to them in their honor,but I dont go into a long laid out naming ceremomy like I have heard some say they do. Well I didnt mean cleansing in the wiccan sense,I mean to merly do a ritual to let the spirits know that you are there to use the space for a special reason and not to bother them and to ask protection against harmful entities while you are there.
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Post by goldenhand on Mar 29, 2005 13:45:10 GMT -1
oh, interesting point there Blackbird, I'd not thought about having to 'declare' space within a magic circle. That makes a lot of sense - like you're creating your own little universe in the circle, marking out the boundaries etc.
Kern, I do that - I always ask before I use a space, if it's alright with the spirits who live there, and make them an offering in thanks. I think that's a polite thing to do ;D
Blessings,
Angharad
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Post by Chad on Jun 12, 2013 6:21:34 GMT -1
My cosmology used to be based off the four elements of the classical Greeks. But, it has evolved to be the three realms of land, sea, and sky now. It is easier for me to visualize, in a personal sense, land for the flesh, sea for the blood (I guess more like rivers, when you think of blood vessels), and sky being the intangibe aspects, such as the mind and soul.
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